Springfield, VA – Executive Director of Gun Owners of America (GOA) Erich Pratt made the following statement after the House Judiciary Committee’s actions on concealed carry reciprocity and background check legislation:

“Over 1.5 million law-abiding Americans who make up Gun Owners of America commend the House Judiciary Committee for reporting H.R. 38, the concealed carry reciprocity bill.

“GOA applauds the committee passage of H.R. 38 and encourages the House leadership to take up the bill right away. This legislation will allow decent Americans to carry in any state in the country with confidence that they would not become entrapped by the fascist gun laws of anti-gun states.

“GOA also sends special kudos to Republicans on the Judiciary Committee who shot down an attempt by Democrats to delete the Constitutional Carry protections in the bill. Gun Owners of America opposed the amendment that sought to only limit concealed carry reciprocity to permit holders and was happy to see that provision go down to an inglorious defeat.

“Finally, Gun Owners of America condemns the committee's approval of the ‘Traffic Ticket Gun Ban’ (H.R. 4477). This deceptive legislation would add hundreds of thousands of additional names into the NICS system, thus blocking thousands of lawful gun owners from purchasing guns for offenses as slight as unpaid traffic tickets. Not only that, it would lay the groundwork for an anti-gun administration to troll every government health and welfare program for the purpose of imposing gun bans on recipients with PTSD, ADHD, and Alzheimer's -- the latter would jeopardize the inheritance of many valuable gun collections. The Obama administration already tried to do this with Social Security disability. In the future, there may not be a pro-gun Congress to disapprove similar moves or a pro-gun president to sign it.”

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Garbage Fred Barnes, just pure garbage.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/065dbylu.asp
A squabble over Iraq between Ron Paul, who wants an immediate evacuation of U.S. troops, and Mike Huckabee was noisier and more emotional, but it showed what we already knew: Paul rants and Huckabee can hold his own.
Paul, who got in the most words last night, should...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has a history of being skeptical about U.S. taxpayer funds going towards the Jewish state, has placed a hold on the U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act of 2018, which provides Israel with $38 billion in military aid over the next decade.
This has caused backlash from organizations such as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
“This...

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In what is the most shocking geopolitical news of the day, NBC reports that the Trump administration is weighing extraditing the nemesis of Turkish President Recep Erdogan, cleric Fethulah Gulen who has been living for years in relative seclusion in rural Pennsylvania, from the U.S. in order to placate Turkey over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
According to the NBC report, ...

by Tyler Durden
Tue, 12/18/2018 - 20:25
Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
In the land of the fee and home of the slave, incoming Democrats have already drafted a bill that will criminalize private gun sales. As a “free” American, you will no longer be able to sell your own property without the government’s permission, unless you want to be labeled as a criminal if this bill succeeds...

Silverlining here may be that Trump support among democrats should increase after his recent statements:
'Gun-grabber-in-chief': Conservatives turn on Trump as threat to confiscate guns prompts Second Amendment-related outrage
'He's a fraud and has betrayed us twice now'
Thursday 1 March 2018
Donald Trump has sparked fury...

The United States pledged $5.8 billion in aid and investment Tuesday for strengthening government and economic development in Central America, and another $4.8 billion in development aid for southern Mexico. The U.S aid aims to promote better security conditions and job opportunities as part of a regional plan to allow Central Americans and Mexicans to remain in their countries...

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This is a thread guaranteed to draw Zippy like flies.
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/its-official-the-federal-reserve-is-insolvent-24373/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=sm_notes&utm_campaign=notes&utm_content=20181214_

So the DJIA dropped ~1000 points net last week, including a one day drop of 830.
This occurred after the yield on the 10YUST hit new highs (i.e. just like February 2018).
So what happens next?
Do yields back off as the market recovers (as occurred in Feb), or is the bubble finally bursting?
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I go to a small private college in New England. I major in math and love my math department. I've gotten into arguments with economics professors at my college over the gold standard and the free market and such. They are the usual socialist/communist economics professors at most colleges, nothing unusual.
I just found out, however, that the economics department chair is the son of the...

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This fall the Indians on a remote reservation asked their new Chief Oyarde if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild.
Since he was a chief in a modern society, he’d never learned the old tribal secrets. He couldn’t look at the sky to predict what the winter was going to be like.
"It's going to be a very cold winter."
So just to be on the safe side, Oyarde told his tribe that the...

I want to get some Carbon C60 for my old dog. She has joint pain and is about 12 years old which is about the life span of a doberman. They say this stuff increases life span. I am not sure it is right to increase the life span. I want to be in as well as I can be while I am here. I am not sure I want to take it myself but I do want to see is it will help my dog feel better. I do feel that we are...

Video at link. Couldnt embed it, sorry.
https://www.ted.com/talks/nita_farahany_when_technology_can_read_minds_how_will_we_protect_our_privacy/transcript#t-183143
What happens when things you 'think' are interpreted as Dissident Behavior? Say hello to the Thought Police.
What happens when you have to give up your Thought Privacy AT HOME in order to even keep your job?

The flu shot this year may be worth getting. It contains updates that were not in last year’s vaccine.
Last year (2017), the FDA simply used the same vaccine combination from the previous year (2016), and not only was it redundant and unnecessary for people who had been vaccinated the prior year, it was a poor match for the viruses that circulated last year and early this year, including a...

Seniors Who Have Sex Regularly Are More Content In Their Lives
https://www.studyfinds.org/seniors-who-have-sex-regularly-are-more-content-in-their-lives/
Study of nearly 7,000 older adults shows greater levels of enjoyment and wellbeing among those who report more frequent sexual activity.
LONDON — Even in our senior years, having sex regularly — or even just fooling around — can...

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Highly renowned intellectual thinker Richard Spencer once said that the Alt-Right is a wide spectrum of beliefs. I think I have unfairly lumped them into one group and treated them all like they are the same. I came to this comclusion after doing some more research on people who identify as alt-right. So lets take a look at the different types of people in the alt-right. Please tell me if...

My living constitution says in article 1, section 8, “the president has authority To establish a uniform rule of naturalization”. As I continue to read, i learn the 14th amendment basically says “the president decides all persons born or naturalized in the United States, especially when subject to jurisdiction of other nations, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they...

Donald Trump has come out against birthright citizenship. In response, so did Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal. Looks like Rand has opposed it in the past.
Judge Napolitano says it is part of the Constitution: http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/08/17/what-can-trump-actually-do-legally-immigration-deportations-judge-napolitano-explains
Can we get rid of birthright citizenship? Is it a matter of an...

If Article III, Sections 1 and 2, as some will argue, grants the Supreme Court to constantly "update" meanings of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights per their personal opinions/interpretations, doesn't that in fact make the Supreme Court an overpowered branch of government?

This thread is mostly about the effect of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), and the way they keep the third world enslaved.
I took a lot of time to investigate the arbitration of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) of the World Bank. This gives companies the possibility to “sue” states, so they can get damaged compensated if (democratically elected) parliaments make laws, that they...